Active Directory Federation Services Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS)
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Active Directory Federation Services skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 49 41
Rank change year-on-year -3 -8 +9
Contract jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services 3 1 6
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 0.81% 0.30% 1.43%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.24% 1.28% 7.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £281 - -
25th Percentile £290 - £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £326 - £220
Median % change year-on-year - - -45.00%
75th Percentile £358 - £230
90th Percentile £364 - -
South West median daily rate £575 £650 £375
% change year-on-year -11.54% +73.33% -31.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
South West median hourly rate - - £62.50

All Systems Management Skills
Gloucestershire

Active Directory Federation Services falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 134 78 82
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 36.22% 23.78% 19.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 53 60
10th Percentile £231 £400 £406
25th Percentile £413 £463 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £625 £631 £738
90th Percentile £700 £734 £775
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £545
% change year-on-year - +0.92% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £41.30 - £67.15
25th Percentile £49.25 - £74.13
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.89%
75th Percentile £75.75 - -
90th Percentile £83.70 - -
South West median hourly rate £86.00 £16.00 £51.25
% change year-on-year +437.50% -68.78% -21.15%

Active Directory Federation Services
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Active Directory Federation Services relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Active Directory Federation Services job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Active Directory Federation Services
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Active Directory Federation Services.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Active Directory Federation Services

Active Directory Federation Services
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Active Directory Federation Services within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 31 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Gloucester -8 3 £326 - 1
Active Directory Federation Services
South West

Active Directory Federation Services
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (66.67%) OneDrive
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) IaaS
3 1 (33.33%) PaaS
3 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (66.67%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) ITSM
2 2 (66.67%) Problem Management
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Server Management
3 1 (33.33%) Service Management
3 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Certification
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) CA Single Sign-On
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft